The Visual Field

Description:

Visualisation is increasingly important within the social sciences and beyond. Disciplines across the board are becoming more visual in their methodology and more concerned with the visual as a topic and a medium. This expanding scope includes:

(1)the growing body of studies of the nature of visual fields, the visual and visualisations as subjects for study in their own right (e.g. in psychology, philosophy, aesthetics, history, art history inc. film and photography studies as well as many other areas of the contemporary arts, humanities, social sciences and natural sciences)

(2)innovative quantitative and qualitative uses of visual methods and visualisations to do research and present results from that research (again, in many different ways)

(3)attempts to get us to visualise/see things in different ways (through experiments, performances or making knowledge available to new publics using visual aids) as part of sparking debates across social science, arts and humanities and natural/life/formal science boundaries.

This event will involve a mix of presenters from the sciences, the social sciences and the arts and humanities. We will think about ‘the visual’ as a common language linking work in the natural, life and social sciences as well as the arts and humanities. Reflecting the status of the visual field as a focus of study, as a tool and as a focus for experimentation with publics as well as data.

There will be sessions on three broad headings

The visual field as:

(1) a focus of study

(2) a research tool

(3) a focus for experimentation and public engagement.

Provisional timetable:

Day 1

12:00-13:00 Arrival lunch

13:00 Welcome/Aims/Intro

14:00-17:00 Invited presentations (5)

19:00 Dinner

Day 2

9:00-10:30 Invited presentations (3)

10:30-10:50 Break

10:50 -11:30 Group discussion

11:30 - 12:30 Break out groups

12:30 - 14:00 Closing plenary discussion about next steps over lunch

Currently confirmed speakers are:

Helen Kenedy, Sheffield University

Elisa Belotti, The University of Manchester

Karen Lander, The University of Manchester

Annamaria Carusi, Sheffield University

Peter Tolmie, Siegen

Rupert Cox, The University of Manchester

John hunt, Nottingham University

Terence Heng, Liverpool University

Intended Outcomes:

All workshop attendees will be invited to co-author/produce of outputs, which is why we are inviting applications to attend this event.

Cost:

This is a free event. Applications are required, if you are successful you will be notified by 12th December 2017

Website and registration:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/edit?eid=38036508220

Region:

North West

Keywords:

Descriptive Research, Experimental design, Visual Methods, Arts-based methods, Photographic research, Video research, Social media data, Social Network Analysis, Alternative Methods of Dissemination, Data Visualisation

Related publications and presentations:

Descriptive Research
Experimental design
Visual Methods
Arts-based methods
Photographic research
Video research
Social media data
Social Network Analysis
Alternative Methods of Dissemination
Data Visualisation

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